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Tiaras Versus Crowns

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 Posted 12/29/2007  03:33 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add trekkertony to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all,

I have just started collecting 50 cent coins and would like to know the reason why some of the 50 cent coins that l have collected have crowns or tiaras on the Queens head for the same year of minting. Can anyone offer an explanation for this variance please.

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 Posted 12/29/2007  05:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add muckeye to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What is the year and value of the coin/s you are referring to please.
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 Posted 12/29/2007  06:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add justabeginner to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is there such thing as that? I thought same year mintings have the same queen's head on it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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 Posted 12/29/2007  10:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Perhaps you are referring to the 2000 Royal Visit 50¢, with the Vladimir Gottwald obverse; that's the only time Australia has used two different obverse portraits in the same year.

Vladimir Gottwald is an Australian designer, and this was the design submitted by him to replace the Raphael Maklouf portrait in a Commonwealth-wide competition. His design was rejected, but approved for use on this one coin type.

Apart from this, the portraits have been constant for a particular year. Arnold Machin 1966-84, Raphael Maklouf 1985-98, Ian Rank-Broadley 1999-now.
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